LANZHOU, Dec. 8 -- With Christmas soon approaching, many young people are buying gifts and making dinner reservations, but Geng Yingying is thinking about a serious subject -- death.
Geng is a healthy 21-year-old student at Northwest Normal University in Gansu Province. She signed some documents to donate her body for medical research and education because she wants to leave a legacy to the world after her death.
She first learned about body donation through a volunteer activity in 2016. Not long after that, one of her friends died in an accident.
"I realized life is vulnerable and I wanted to make it more meaningful," she said.
Geng is one of a growing number of young Chinese who have registered as voluntary body donors in recent years.
The number of registered volunteers for body and organ donations surpassed 2,610 in Gansu by November 20, compared with just 80 in 2017, according to the statistics released by the local Red Cross Society.
In Beijing, more than 21,100 people applied to donate their cadavers by the end of 2017 since the city started a body donation registry in 1999. So far, over 2,600 donations have been used for medical research and education, according to the Beijing Red Cross Society.
There has been an increase in the number of young volunteers who are well educated and are more willing to accept new ideas. "We hope their actions could mobilize more people to support the cause," said Yuan Bo, secretary-general of the Gansu Provincial Red Cross Society.
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